“The fetus has a right to life. But only the mother can protect that right.”
Abortionist Peter Huntingford, once an evangelical Christian converted by Billy Graham, now a doctor who has said publicly that “he would perform an abortion on any woman at any point in the pregnancy and for any reason.”
Quoted by Mary Kenny in Abortion: Whose Right? Institute of ideas (Hodder & Stoughton, 2002) 65 – 66
In a sense, this statement is true – only the mother can really protect her child. But If the child has a right to life, how can that right be conditional to the whim or choice of another person? It seems that this abortionist is moving the responsibility completely onto the mother shoulders, without acknowledging that he is the one doing the killing. Also, by using the term “mother” he seems to be admitting that the fetus is in fact a baby – you can’t be the “mother” to an undifferentiated clump of cells, you are a “mother” to a person, a child.
